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Posted on Aug 28, 2005 10:39 am
starfox
Member Since: Aug 28, 2005
I was wondering about using a mac or
pc. Whitch is better? I currently run sonar producer on a 2.8 gh 512R.
And am using a Tascam us 122 to input audio.
I want a mac but thier really expensive. I was thinking about a mini. A
salesman at Best Buy told me about this and said its how he got his
mac.
macminis.freepay.com/Default.aspx?r=21748378
Would this be as fast or faster than what I'm currentlly runnung
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Aug 28, 2005 10:55 am 2.8 ghz is more than fast enough, I have been running Sonar over the years on less a machine than that. Mac and PC are both decent, and both perfectly capable of making great recordings. If you already have a PC that is as good as the one you have, switching would be silly in my opinion. If you currently had an old, slow PC and needed to buy a new one anyway it'd be different, but you have a nice PC so I say don't mess with it.
Aug 28, 2005 11:15 am I'll take that advice. Do you know if Pro Tools is strictlly a Mac program? I seem to be hearing that is the industry standard recording software
Aug 28, 2005 01:58 pm Protools runs on Windows or Mac, and yes, in big studios it is the commonly accepted standard, but...ummm, so what? It is also, at least at the pro-studio level, one of the most expensive and most proprietary of choices. There are many other choices that allow the user more freedom in hardware choices, third party effects choices and make just as good of recordings.
Also, while the movement is slow, Apps like Nuendo and Cubase are starting to pop up more and more in high end studios...and apps like Sonar are more than capable of doing everything protools does, and in the case of midi in particular, many say Sonar beats it easily...
RigsbyUltra MagnusMember
Since: Nov 13, 2004
Aug 28, 2005 03:50 pm Pro tools sucks for MIDI, it's just not designed with that in mind (actually it was designed for film editing apparently). Pro-tools accept wavs so if you need to be compatible with pro toosl for transfers or whatever after you've recorded just export as wavs with all tracks having the same start point and you'll be golden when you import to pro tools.
Aug 28, 2005 04:16 pm I've used and seen pro tools being used for MIDI. In the right hands its not to bad...... This is pro tools TDM btw, I cant vouch for MIDI on LE.
